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Click here for a FREE sample copy of The Horse's Hoof Magazine! Our 50th Issue Celebration! The Horse's Hoof Magazine Spring 2013-Issue 50 Released on April 1, 2013 THH Spring 2013-Issue 50 32 printed pages of Full, Glossy COLOR on every page! (PDF-56 color pages-our BIGGEST issue EVER!) - Winning Barefoot Success for Dogwood Creek Ponies (Show hunter ponies winning big after receiving correct, balanced barefoot trims!) - Modern Hoof Care: Tips for Soundness (Australian endurance rider shares some keys for barefoot success.) - Holistic Hoof Care with Sossity and Mario Gargiulo (This trimming team is taking barefoot to the international performance level with clients that include world class dressage trainers Shannon and Steffen Peters, and Akiko Yamazaki with her Olympic champion Ravel!) - A Timeline of the Barefoot Movement (A detailed historical overview of events of the past 15 years, as documented by Yvonne Welz and The Horse's Hoof.) - 50th Issue Retrospective by Yvonne Welz and 15 famous barefoot advocates: Dr. Hiltrud Strasser, Dr. Robert Bowker, Dr. Robert Cook, Pete Ramey, Cindy Sullivan, Gretchen Fathauer, Cheryl Henderson, Sabine Kells, Claudia Garner, Greg Sokoloski, Darolyn Butler, Garrett Ford, Carole Herder, Joe Camp, and James Welz - Barefoot at the 2012 Hawaii Horse Expo (Covering in detail a fantastic barefoot presentation by Susanella Noble.) - Journal of a Student Equine Podiatrist, Part 9 (Our final student journal article from Equine Podiatry graduate Vikki Fear.) - Better’s Story, a Journey (A horseowner's story of restoring soundness to his beloved horse.) - Online Extras, 24(!) extra pages in the PDF edition only: 2 very different responses to Jaime Jackson's Laminitis Research "AANHCP Memo from the Director," 50th Issue Retrospectives continue with much more from: Pete Ramey, Cindy “Hawk” Sullivan, Gretchen Fathauer, Cheryl Henderson, Sabine Kells, Carole Herder, Darolyn Butler, and Dr. Robert Cook. SUBSCRIBE to The Horse's Hoof Magazine!

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Welcome to The Horse's Hoof, News for Barefoot Hoofcare
We are here for you!

"The Horse's Hoof" is this informational website, as well as a quarterly printed 32 page FULL COLOR magazine, published since 2000 (available in our online store). The Horse’s Hoof, both magazine and website, is a generic barefoot resource for both horseowners and professionals, created in 2000 by barefoot advocates James & Yvonne Welz. The Horse's Hoof is for everyone! We welcome and encourage all methods and theories of barefoot trimming, and support all forms of hoof care that focus on creating healthier hooves over the long-term. We advocate finding compromises to create more natural, healthier living conditions for all horses. We believe that a good system of barefoot horse care is the ultimate prevention against most serious hoof ailments that affect our domestic horses.

While barefoot can be used successfully for the rehabilitation of unhealthy feet, our main focus is on preventing unhealthy feet in the first place - through education and awareness. It is our goal that barefoot becomes a widely accepted choice for performance horses around the world, with hooves raised carefully from birth to be superior in every way. It can be done - we have that information available now, and many people are putting that to action (see the Barefoot Performance page). Using this knowledge, no horse should ever need to suffer catastrophic founder. The younger you begin a barefoot program with your horse, the better (ideally, at birth), but most horse's hooves can be significantly improved, and even become healthy enough to do whatever activity you desire. Barefoot is NOT a fad, or anything new - after all, horses were born with bare hooves. Learning to keep them that way successfully is the job of the barefoot horse owner, and we're here to help. Healthy hooves create happy horses!

The Horse’s Hoof includes a wide variety of information and links throughout this website, and in our magazine. The magazine contents are mostly different from the website, though we do include some articles on here from past issues (Click here for the Contents List). You will find articles and information from and about all the leading experts in the field, including Jaime Jackson, Dr. Robert Bower, Dr. Hiltrud Strasser, Pete Ramey, KC La Pierre, and many others, as well as experiences and stories from various practitioners and owners. We include a wide variety of material, some of it contradictory, as there are many differences of opinion - and we don't personally agree with everything we publish. We encourage and promote this interchange, because we feel this is what will kick barefoot hoofcare up to the next level!

If you would like to read the personal opinions of James & Yvonne Welz, please visit our membership hoofcare educational website, Hoof Help Online (www.HoofHelpOnline.com), which provides detailed how-to trimming instructions and advice through a wide variety of media, and presents our ideas and philosophies on hoofcare that we have personally developed over the past 14 years.

Barefoot hoofcare is a young, developing art and science. There is so much ahead to discover. After nearly 20 years of hoof study, the leading hoof researcher in the U.S., Dr. Robert Bowker, says, "There is so much that we still don't know about the hoof!"

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March 2013:
Laminitis E-Book from Jenny Edwards: I have put together an ebook on the basics of laminitis with the aim of providing helpful, but not overwhelming, information to horse owners. I found as a trimmer, there is not one easy reference place that I could send my clients to so decided to collate all that I have learnt into an easy-to-read and understand ebook. Here is a link to my webpage with more info on the book: http://www.all-natural-horse-care.com/equine-laminitis.html

The Hoof Help Online Official "App" is just released!!! Download it today!
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Italian translation of articles in The Horse's Hoof Magazine!
Starting with Spring 2013, THH Issue 50, select articles will be translated into Italian and text emailed to all subscribers in Italy. There will be a couple week delay for the translation, with estimate by mid-April for THH 50. The translation is being done by a dedicated volunteer group of Italian subscribers and will be free of charge! Italians, all you need to do is subscribe to The Horse's Hoof Magazine! The Horse's Hoof Store

Get your rasps re-sharpened instead of buying new ones!!! Boggs Tool Processing is a great company that will sharpen your 14" rasps for just $5.00 each, using abrasive blasting. Your satisfaction is guaranteed! Visit their website: www.BoggsTool.com

April 20 & 21, 2013
Hoof Help Online Clinic with James & Yvonne Welz
Long Island, New York
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New York Clinic Flyer (PDF)

May 4 & 5, 2013
Hoof Help Online Clinic with James & Yvonne Welz
Reddick, Florida (Ocala area)
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Florida Clinic Flyer (PDF)

February 2013
Dressage Today Magazine Cover Story: "Barefoot Dressage with Shannon Peters"
Trainers Shannon and Steffen Peters explore the benefits of barefoot dressage with high-performance horses.
Read the full article online:
http://www.equisearch.com/horses_care/health/hoof_care/barefoot-dressage-with-shannon-peters/

January 2013
THH author, fantastic horsewoman and Long Rider Christy Henchie passed away tragically in a road accident in Tanzania on January 28, 2013. Her fiancé, South African Long Rider Billy Brenchley barely escaped death and suffered a broken leg. An out-of-control bus hit them and their horses, and also killed and injured many bystanders. You can read more here: http://horsetalk.co.nz/2013/01/31/horror-smash-tanzania-claims-life-long-rider/#.UTu2AKWWOaF
A beautiful statement from Christy, who lived such a rich and exciting adventure: “We have accepted that we will finish when we finish and not before. One day we will reach home and things will change and we will lead different lives. We will get married and have children and no doubt they will become our motivation for everything we do but until then, our life is a journey and we are enjoying the ride.” -- Historical Long Rider Christy Henchie

International Bare Hoof Association (IBHA)
Finally! An International Bare Hoof Association!
Benefits of membership include: an online (PDF) subscription to The Horse’s Hoof Magazine, access to an online forum with articles and a discussion board where you can connect with other bare hoof enthusiasts, discounts to seminars and symposiums hosted by IBHA, and listing services for the bare hoof industry and friends of the bare hoof horse. Members currently come from the USA, Canada, Belgium, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Sweden – resulting in a truly international community dedicated to the welfare and promotion of the bare hoof horse. The IBHA is looking forward to hosting seminars, providing insurance and scholarships for future hoof care professionals. Your membership helps the IBHA to accomplish very ambitious goals.
Sign up today: http://barehoofinternational.org/
Here you also will find how to contact the board members of IBHA, they are looking forward to your questions and to serving the bare hoof community.
You also can “like” the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/InternationalBareHoofAssociation

October 2012
Equine Hoof Development Study Needs Your Help!
Dr. Debra Taylor of Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine is ready to move forward with a long-term MRI/CT study of internal foot development in live horses! I don’t have to tell any of you how HUGE this could be. I have a link to a request for private donations under “What’s New” on my front page (www.hoofrehab.com). Or you can just use this link:
http://www.hoofrehab.com/AuburnPodiatryStudy.htm
Will you spread the word? If this is important to you, please post the link to any chat groups you belong to, and forward it to anyone you think might donate some money. Ivy and I are donating... I hope you will too.—Pete Ramey

“Two Minutes With Tab” from Vettec - Video Series Focused on Hoof Health and Ailments Launched
Vettec Inc. launches free, hoof care instructional video series, “2 Minutes with Tab,” featuring Certified Journeyman Farrier, Tab Pig. Click here to view.

Each issue of The Horse's Hoof Magazine is released with the seasons:
Winter issue: Jan 1
Spring issue: Apr 1
Summer issue: July 1
Fall issue: Oct 1

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